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to make a cross, cruise]

1 : to sail about touching at a series of ports

2 : to travel for enjoyment

3 : to travel about the streets at random

4 : to travel at the most efficient operating speed

2cruise noun : an act or an instance of cruising; especially : a tour by ship

Synonyms

crossing, passage, sail, voyage—more at SAIL

cruis·er noun 1 : SQUAD CAR

2 : a large fast moderately armored and gunned warship

3 : a motorboat equipped for living aboard

crul·ler noun 1 : a small sweet cake in the form of a twisted strip fried in deep fat

2 Northern & Midland : an unraised doughnut

1crumb noun 1 : a small fragment

2 : a small piece or quantity of some material thing

Synonyms

[1, 2] atom, bit, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, particle, patch, scrap, scruple, speck, tittle

2crumb verb 1 : to break into crumbs

2 : to cover with crumbs

crum·ble verb crum·bled; crum·bling 1 : to break into small pieces : DISINTEGRATE

2 : to break down completely

crum·bly adjective : easily crumbled

Synonyms

crisp, flaky, friable, short—more at CRISP

crum·my also crumby adjective crum·mi·er also crumb·i·er; -est : very poor or inferior : LOUSY

crum·pet noun : a small round unsweetened bread cooked on a griddle

crum·ple verb crum·pled; crum·pling 1 : to crush together : RUMPLE

2 : fall into a jumbled or flattened mass through the force of external pressure : COLLAPSE

Synonyms

[1] crinkle, rumple, wrinkle; also corrugate, crease, crimp, fold, furrow, pleat; ripple, ruffle; disarrange, jumble, mess (up), muss (up)

Antonyms

iron out, smooth

[2] cave, collapse, give, go, yield—more at COLLAPSE

1crunch verb 1 : to chew with a grinding noise

2 : to grind or press with a crushing noise

Synonyms

usually crunch on [1] bite, champ, chew, chomp, gnaw, nibble

[2] gnash, grate, grind, grit, scrape—more at GRIND

2crunch noun 1 : an act of or a sound made by crunching

2 : a tight or critical situation

— crunchy adjective

Synonyms

clutch, crisis, emergency, head, juncture—more at EMERGENCY

cru·sade noun 1 cap : any of the expeditions in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries undertaken by Christian countries to take the Holy Land from the Muslims

2 : a reforming enterprise undertaken with zeal

— crusade verb

Synonyms

bandwagon, campaign, cause, drive, movement—more at CAMPAIGN

cru·sad·er noun : one engaged in a crusade

Synonyms

fanatic, militant, partisan, zealot—more at ZEALOT

cruse noun : a jar for water or oil

1crush verb 1 : to squeeze out of shape

2 : HUG, EMBRACE

3 : to grind or pound to small bits

4 : to suppress or overwhelm as if by pressure or weight : SUPPRESS

5 : to subdue completely

Synonyms

[1] mash, squash; also press, squeeze; beat, pound, powder, pulverize

[3] atomize, grind, powder, pulverize—more at POWDER

[4, 5] clamp down, crack down, put down, quash, quell, repress, silence, snuff, squash, squelch, subdue, suppress—more at QUELL

[4, 5] carry away, devastate, floor, oppress, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, prostrate, snow under, swamp—more at OVERWHELM

2crush noun 1 : an act of crushing

2 : a violent crowding

3 : INFATUATION

Synonyms

army, crowd, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, swarm, throng—more at CROWD

crust noun 1 : the outside part of bread; also : a piece of old dry bread

2 : the cover of a pie

3 : a hard surface layer

— crust·al adjective

crus·ta·cean noun : any of a large class of mostly aquatic arthropods (as lobsters or crabs) having a firm crustlike shell

— crustacean adjective

crusty adjective crust·i·er; -est 1 : having or being a crust

2 : giving an effect of surly incivility in address or disposition : CROSS, GRUMPY

crutch noun : a supporting device; especially : a support fitting under the armpit for use by the disabled in walking

crux noun, plural crux·es 1 : a puzzling or difficult problem

2 : a crucial point

Synonyms

core, gist, heart, nub, pith, pivot; also course,

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